People eating food they haven't paid for....

[maddiemookins16mum]

....It just really bugs me. To the point of utter revulsion.
In a supermarket, grown adults opening a pack of 4 pork pies and happily munching their way around the shop, only to toss the empty pack to be scanned as their shopping goes through. Why do people do that, have you ever, and why??? (DD had to wait until the car for her gingerbreadman biscuit from Waitrose).

Some do, some don't, you don't know.
Most people who do this don't care what people think though, so it's not an issue.

[shrunken]. If said person gets frowned upon, that just shows people shaming them have a lack of self control. I.e. Are lacking the ability to accept others and act as sociably nice creature. Is there anyone, who doesn't lack some kind of self control?

Most of the supermarket workers have posted to say they don't care at all. Most wrappers don't even end up grotty.

Nothing to back which statement up? That people who eat in supermarkets don't care what people think?

I though that was a good thing. Why should they care? I do things people no doubt judge, and don't really care.

Apologies if you were referring to a different remark of mine.

Perhaps the offending shopper is on chemo and needs something quick between bouts of feeling sick, perhaps they are shopping for their man on the way to visit their terminally ill parent in a hospice and it's literally the only chance they've had to eat, perhaps their a widow with children working full time and has too much on her mind to worry about etiquette and grabs something in the moment she doesn't feel too anxious to eat. It's not hurting anyone else at all so what's the problem. Someone being rude or loud or mean in a supermarket to someone would annoy me how could this possibly bother you, you must have one easy life.

Oh honestly. Stop trying to excuse their rude behaviour. They are ill indeed. Doubt it.

Large percentage of people are very poorly why wouldn't they be ill? Many many people are or in some type of awful crisis that is reality , when you look at how rude people are to each other in every day life, really really mean at times how can this be described as rude really , it's amazing that this bothers people but then to be fair I guess we all have our niggles about certain things which may not be logical

Poppy, you are a card.

As I previously said, I've been given food and drinks both in Sainsbury's and M&S when I collapsed. So if I feel ill and don't have any food on me, yes I will eat prior to paying. I mainly online shop for this reason.

jojo2916 - I know people having chemo, I know widows, and I've had both parents terminally in a hospice. I wouldn't dream of scoffing food in a supermarket and neither would they. Because we are all people with STANDARDS and MANNERS. Whatever your circumstances, these do not change.

Well you don't know me Rhoda . And more importantly, you aren't me. So you know absolutely nothing. But hey according to you, I should just collapse in the store and not eat anything to give me energy. And before you think, perhaps I should have eaten just before arriving in store, it doesn't work like that with me. So if you bump into me desperately trying to open a pack of ham, I'm not being rude or trying to flaunt your STANDARDS and MANNERS, I'm trying not to cause a scene.

It's a well known fact that supermarkets pump artificial food smells through their air conditioning to tempt shoppers. All done to make people feel hungry. Therefore they can hardly complain. They also regularly put trays of fresh bread and cake out for shoppers to sample as they walk round.

Judging someone else's behaviour when it doesn't affect you at all is the height of rudeness.

I've opened and drank Lucozade or the like when I had a hypo mid-shop. If anybody judges me for it, they're a cunt.

Judging someone else's behaviour when it doesn't affect you at all is the height of rudeness.

Well said MyWineTime

STANDARDS and MANNERS!

ROFL.

And I haven't said that since 2002

Yanbu-terrible message to give your kids- I'd be mortified if one of mine thought it was ok to tuck into something prior to paying! And yet somehow we've managed years of supermarket shops.

Judging someone else's behaviour when it doesn't affect you at all is the height of rudeness.

erm, isn't that what 80% of Mumsnet is all about?

And I don't imagine that Theresa May scoffs packs of pork pies before she's paid for them.

If you rofl at "standards and manners" then I feel sorry for you.

It wasn't standards and manners.

It was STANDARDS and MANNERS. WRT eating while you shop. Brilliant.

No sorry, let's get it right, it was STANDARDS and MANNERS

"Tucks into"
"scoffs packs of pork pies"
"munches on"
"chomps on"

It's almost like some posters are trying to make eating sound more vulgar than it actually is.

I know, they'll be masticating in the middle of the supermarket next. Discusting.

Those of you still banging on the 'eating is repulsive' drum - what would your view be on somebody standing at the sampling stand in the Fortnum & Mason food hall, eating a pimento stuffed olive, a sun dried tomato and a cube of Gorgonzola from a cocktail stick and pronouncing 'Golly, that's rather good!' Would that be acceptable? It's still eating in a shop.